{"id":3107,"date":"2012-08-14T10:07:52","date_gmt":"2012-08-14T10:07:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cloudcomputing-news.net\/news\/2012\/aug\/14\/are-companies-spending-more-and-more-cloud\/"},"modified":"2012-08-14T10:07:52","modified_gmt":"2012-08-14T10:07:52","slug":"are-companies-spending-more-and-more-on-the-cloud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/are-companies-spending-more-and-more-on-the-cloud\/","title":{"rendered":"Are companies spending more and more on the cloud?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to analysis from research firm Frost and Sullivan, over half of Australian companies using cloud computing services are spending 10% of their budget on the cloud.<\/p>\n<p>Further research revealed that 70% of Australian enterprises in the cloud are looking to boost their services &ldquo;significantly&rdquo; in the next 12 months.<\/p>\n<p>The overall research into Australian business showed:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>53% of companies using cloud computing services spend more than one tenth of their IT budget on cloud solutions<\/li>\n<li>31% spend more than 20% of their budget on the cloud<\/li>\n<li>Perhaps unsurprisingly larger organisations spend much more on cloud than smaller companies<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The study noted the similarities between companies pursuing software as a service (SaaS) and infrastructure as a service (IaaS).<\/p>\n<p>While SaaS remained the most common delivery model, the use of IaaS has skyrocketed, in part due to increased local market adoption, the report noted.<\/p>\n<p>The usual concerns over moving to the &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to analysis from research firm Frost and Sullivan, over half of Australian companies using cloud computing services are spending 10% of their budget on the cloud.<br \/>\nFurther research revealed that 70% of Australian enterprises in the cloud are l&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3107","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3107","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3107"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3107\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}